Macy’s launching Bloomingdale’s outlet stores in South Florida

Bloomingdale’s will soon be launching a line of outlet stores as a response to changing consumer shopping patterns and falling commercial real estate rates.

A customer looks over formal dresses while shopping in Bloomingdale's in New York. Bloomberg News file photo.

Parent company Macy’s Inc. said it will open the first four Bloomingdale’s Outlet locations this summer or fall, according to Dow Jones.

Two of the four approximately 25,000-square-foot stores are expected to be in South Florida: one is projected to go in Dolphin Mall in Miami and another in Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise.

“We have been studying the opportunities for entering the off-the-mall outlet business for some time, and the timing now is right given the consumer’s particular focus on value in addition to fashion and quality,” Terry J. Lundgren, Macy’s chairman, president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.

According to a press release, Bloomingdale’s Outlet stores will offer a range of apparel and accessories, including women’s ready-to-wear, men’s, children’s, women’s shoes, fashion accessories, jewelry, handbags and intimate apparel.

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